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Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

DVD drive not detected anymore

Hi,

four weeks ago or so, I suddenly started to miss my DVD drive in my mount- and even in my /dev folder. From some point of time on (most likely some kernel patch), it just wasn't detected anymore.

Technically it still works, I can still boot from boot CDs, it's appearantly just a kernel detection thing.
I have this mainboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P4VM890 with my harddisk hanging on IDE0 and my DVD drive and CD writer on IDE1.

The output of dmesg doesn't mention anything else then the successful detection of sda0-5.

Things I tried already are:

-Pata hook only, IDE hook only, both, including kernel update.
-Putting ide_disk, cdrm, piix into the MODULES section.
-All combinations of master/slave settings for my HDD and other drives on poth IDE ports.
-All related BIOS-settings
-CK-Kernel, Beyond, etc.

Now in this Thread coolpyrofreak suggested to reinstall Arch with IDE-legacy enabled.. which I guess I have to try at some point, but I don't relly want to install another distribution or windows just be able to burn another arch cd.. and even though it's probably not too much of a hassle to reinstall arch and just keep my old home folder, I thought I'd give it one last try here. I still hope the ide-legacy-option can be activated afterwards. Does anyone know how? Or does anyone have any other idea what I should do?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Zoranthus (2007-05-14 11:01:38)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,803

Re: DVD drive not detected anymore

Iirc ide-legacy has the same result as using ide instead of pata in mkinitcpio.
I've encountered the same problem in my desktop : DVD writer disappeared twice , but came back a few updates later
currently it has disappeared again ...

Using ide or pata doesn't make a difference, i'm inclined towards a kernel/udev/hal related combination problem.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2007-05-14 19:51:45)

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